10 Infamous Sci-Fi Movie Disasters That Cost Obscene Money

1. Battlefield Earth

Mars Needs Moms
Warner Bros

Vanity projects are never a good idea, and while Battlefield Earth may have taken a lot of the shine away from John Travolta's mid-career renaissance, it could have been a lot worse and killed it entirely.

So misguided was the entire effort from start to finish, that Travolta initially approached Quentin Tarantino about directing before eventually settling on George Lucas protege Roger Christian, meaning that The Phantom Menace wasn't the Star Wars creator's only unsavory contribution to turn-of-the-millennium sci-fi.

With a budget of $73m many were predicting failure from the very beginning, and that turned out to be the only front on which Battlefield Earth didn't disappoint. Almost impressively bad filmmaking, Travolta's folly remains his last venture into the sci-fi genre, and unsurprisingly coincided with a drastic downturn for his standing in the industry that he never managed to recover from.

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